Place:Colsterdale, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Colsterdale (#9 on the Leyburn Rural District map) is now a civil parish and a village in the Harrogate District of North Yorkshire, England. It is located in a valley also named Colsterdale which follows the River Burn, a tributary of the River Ure, in the Yorkshire Dales. Colsterdale is about 7 miles (11 km) west of Masham. The neighbouring parish to the southeast is Healey with Sutton (or Healey). The area is in Harrogate district. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 20 in 2010.

History

The name, first recorded in 1281, means "coalman valley". There was a coal mine here in the 14th century.

Colsterdale "dale" was historically divided between the ancient parishes of East Witton and Masham. In the 19th century the upper part of the dale, above Gollinglith Foot, became part of the civil parish of East Witton Without, but in 1886 was transferred to the civil parish of Healey with Sutton, and in 1894 was created a separate civil parish. In 1934 2,915 acres (1,180 hectares) of the uninhabited Masham Moor (including the uninhabited part of Colsterdale), an area which was common to the parishes of Masham and East Witton, was added to the civil parish of Colsterdale. The lower part of the dale had become part of the civil parish of Healey with Sutton in 1866, but was known simply as Healey from 1934.

During the First World War Colsterdale was the site of a training camp for the Leeds Pals, a regiment formed exclusively from volunteers from the city of Leeds. There is now a memorial to the Leeds Pals in the dale. The training camp later became a Prisoner of War camp for German Officers.

Prior to the nationwide municipal reorganization of 1974, Colsterdale was located in Masham Rural District. Between 1894 and 1934 it had been in the Leyburn Rural District. Historically, it was located in the ecclesiastical parish of East Witton in the Hang West Wapentake.